THE IDAHO SENSATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8539, 20 March 1908, Page 5

THE IDAHO SENSATION.

HARRY ORCHARD CONDEMNED TO I>EATH. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Press Association. NEW YORK, March 19. Tho trial has just concluded of Harry Orchard, charged with the murder of Mr Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho, in 18!)9. Orchard was found guilty, and sentenced to death. The Court expressed the conviction that -Orchard's allegations that a conspiracy existed among the officials of the Western Miners' Federation to assassinate Steunenberg were the exact truth, and, therefore, recommended that the sentence be commuted to imprisonment for life. At Boise City. Idaho, last year, the trial took place of Haywood, Moyor, and Pet.tibone, officials of the Western Miners' Federation, for complicity in the murder of Mr Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho, and ended after several months in acquittal. The prosecution called as chief witness Harry Orchard, the selfconfessed assassin of ox-Governor Steunenberg, and the agent-, of more than a score of outrages. Extraordinary precautions had been adopted to guard tho wretched man from violence. Orchard stated that he was born in Canada in

1866. went: io the Coetir d'Alene mines in 1889, and joined the Feclcra'f-ion of Miners. He gave an account of a social meeting of the Miners' Union. Burke, in April. 1899. at which the secretary an-, nounced that it. had been decided that day to go to Wardner and blow up a mill at tho Sullivan and Bunker's Hill mines and hang the superintendent. _ Arrangements had been made to cut the wires along tho railway and take possession of the Northern Pacific train. " There wore a thousand men oa the train bound for Wardner, most of them armed. We were told to fire on the mills as we approachcd, and we did so. Tho fire was returned. The guards fled, and the miners took possession. They put powder in three places, and the mill was blown up." Steunenberg's name was mentioned at the meeting referred to, and Orchard and another man fitst decided to kill Governor Steunenberg with a bomb, and planted one at his gate; but it failed to explode. They concluded that it would be better to shoot the Governor. lie tried onco to ""shoot Steunenberg. and then made two attempts with bombs, the second proving fatal as the victim entered the gate leading to his residence iu Saratoga.